Monthly Archives: May 2021

Blue Rope – Magog Down 2

I drew attention to the intrusive inclusion of the path in my Blue Rope photograph posted on 2nd May. I visited the Down yesterday (the cowslips have almost disappeared and the dog daisies are in waiting) and took a phone … Continue reading

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Photographic Ups and Downs

Thursday 27th was a day of photographic ups and downs. On the upside, the final version of my latest photobook, Footfall, was sent to Blurb for printing.  I tweaked a few of the pictures and included eight new ones that … Continue reading

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Bartlow

The pleasures of walking from Bartlow on Wednesday:  fresh air and quiet; rolling countryside (I spend too much time on the Fen edge); patterns of light and shade drifting across the landscape; fresh spring green oak and beech and hawthorn … Continue reading

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One Cold Hand Revisited

Did a four-mile circular walk from Bartlow yesterday. I saw this sign on the gate at the waste water treatment works between Bartlow and Ashdon. It took me back to making two early photo books: One Cold Hand – A … Continue reading

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Walking 45

‘I walk because I like it.  I like the rhythm of it…’

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Minsmere Regeneration

May 18th-22nd, four nights in Southwold; weather more autumn than spring, November rather than May. The 19th, a trip to Minsmere, despite the threat of rain; walking the Coast trail rewarded with swifts, warblers trilling, bitterns booming, terns carrying sand … Continue reading

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Walking 44

‘…the unexpected insights and juxtapositions…’

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Agios Nikolaos, Hora

I was due to fly to Greece for a week in the Mani at Kardamili yesterday, but it became a pandemic victim.  Tom Sawford’s excellent web site dedicated to Patrick Leigh Fermor, patrickleighfermor.org, reminded me that my departure would have … Continue reading

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Walking 43

To walk at night is to yield to, or embrace, an outlaw status.

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Walking 42

‘Out in the street, we become observing entities, “part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers”.’ 

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Walking 41

‘…walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.’  

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Walking 40

‘In the contemporary city, the eyes on screens often outnumber those on the street.’

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Walking 39

‘…it is both means and end, travel and destination.’

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Fen Landscape – New Bedford River

The New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain because of the distance between the tops of the two embankments on either, is a man-made cut-off or by-pass channel of the River Great Ouse in the Fens. It … Continue reading

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Blue Rope – Magog Down

The Magog Downs were gilded delicately with cowslips on Friday, showing up the trashy gaudiness of lurid fields of rape. I like the brilliance of the blue here, the spiral and the way the end on the rope is pointing … Continue reading

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